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TCU Horned Frogs football
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The TCU Horned Frogs football team is the intercollegiate football team of Texas Christian University. The Horned Frogs compete in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States, TCU began playing football in 1896 and claims national championships in 1935 and 1938. TCU has one Heisman Trophy winner, Davey OBrien, and has had eight former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the Horned Frogs play their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth. TCU ranks as the 28th best college football program of all time, the Horned Frogs are also one of only four FBS teams to have played in all six College Football Playoff Bowls, winning all but the Fiesta and Orange. TCUs first year of football started on December 7,1896, TCU won its first game ever played by beating Tobys Business College to the score of 8–6, apparently not having to use any substitutes. TCU finished its first ever season with a record of 12–0–0, prior to joining the Southwest Conference in 1923, TCU amassed a record of 165–15–0. In 1912, TCU went 8–1–0 and scored 230 points while only allowing 53 points the whole season, in 1920, TCU won its first conference title as a member of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Horned Frogs 9–1–0 record earned them a spot in the Fort Worth Classic, also known as the Dixie Bowl, although the game was played in Fort Worth, Centre won the game 63–7. In 1923, TCU endured a 5-game winning streak during its first year in the SWC, but it earned a 2–1–0 conference record, one loss that year was a 40–21 decision against TCUs emerging rival, the SMU Mustangs, who went 9–0 en route to a conference championship. The next year, TCU finished second place in the conference with a 5–1 SWC record, after two great seasons, the Horned Frogs righted the ship. Prior to 1923 TCU had had a door of coaches. Following entrance to the SWC, the established a high degree of stability, employing just four coaches over the next 43 years. Under those four coaches (Bell, Schmidt, Meyer, and Martin, matty Bell, who began coaching the Frogs in 1923, had his best year in 1928, his last year as coach. That years only came at home 7–6 to the Baylor Bears. That year the Frogs finished in place in the conference at 8–2–0 overall. The 1929 season saw the arrival of Coach Francis Schmidt and TCUs first SWC title, the title was won in the last game of the year on November 30,1929 against SMU. Coming into the game TCU led SMU in the conference standings, TCU had 4 wins, while SMUs conference record was 3–0–1. Since this was the last conference game of the year for teams, TCU could win its first SWC title with a win or a tie

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Texas Christian University
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Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university in Fort Worth, Texas established in 1873 by Addison & Randolph Clark as the AddRan Male & Female College. The campus is located on 272 acres about three miles from downtown Fort Worth, TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ. The university consists of 8 constituent colleges and schools and has a liberal arts curriculum. Its mascot is the frog, the state reptile of Texas. For most varsity sports TCU competes in the Big 12 conference of the NCAAs Division I, the university enrolls around 10,394, with 8,892 being undergraduates. As of February 2016, TCUs total endowment was $1.514 billion, Texas Christian University was founded by East Texas brothers Addison & Randolph Clark, together with the support of their father Joseph A. Clark. The Clarks were scholar-preacher/teachers associated with the Restoration Movement and these early leaders of the Restoration Movement were the spiritual ancestors of the modern Disciples of Christ, as well as major proponents of education. Following their return from service in the Civil War, brothers Addison and this school, known as the Male & Female Seminary of Fort Worth, operated from 1869 to 1874. Both Clarks nourished a vision for an institution of education that would be Christian in character. They purchased five blocks of land in downtown Fort Worth in 1869 for that purpose, but from 1867–1872, the character of Fort Worth changed substantially due to the commercial influence of the Chisholm Trail, the principal route for moving Texas cattle to the Kansas rail heads. A huge influx of cattle, men, and money transformed the frontier village into a booming, brawling cowtown. Its rough and rowdy reputation had, by 1872, acquired it the nickname of Hells Half Acre, the Clarks feared that this negative environment undermined the fledgling universitys mission. In 1873 the Clark brothers moved South and founded AddRan Male & Female College, TCU recognizes 1873 as its founding year, as it continues to preserve the original college through the AddRan College of Liberal Arts. AddRan College was one of the first coeducational institutions of higher education west of the Mississippi River, and this was a progressive step at a time when only 15% of the national college enrollment was female and almost all were enrolled at womens colleges. At Thorp Spring the fledgling university expanded quickly, the inaugural enrollment in Fall 1873 was 13 students, though this number rose to 123 by the end of the first term. Shortly thereafter, annual enrollment ranged from 200 to 400, at one time more than 100 counties of Texas were represented in the student body. The Clark brothers also recruited prestigious professors from all over the South to join them at Thorp Spring, the standards of the school and the efficiency of its work came to be recognized throughout the United States, and many graduates were welcomed at universities throughout the country. In 1889 AddRan College formed a partnership with what would become the Christian Church

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Fort Worth, Texas
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Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. The city is in North Central Texas and covers nearly 350 square miles in the counties of Denton, Parker, Wise, according to the 2015 census, estimates, Fort Worths population is 833,319. The city is the second-largest in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, the city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today, Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture, USS Fort Worth is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city. Fort Worth is home to the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, also of note is the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, designed by Philip Johnson, the Sid Richardson Museum, redesigned by David M. Schwarz, has one of the most focused collections of Western Art in the U. S. emphasizing Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. The Treaty of Birds Fort between the Republic of Texas and several Native American tribes was signed in 1843 at Birds Fort in present-day Arlington, Texas. Article XI of the treaty provided that no one may pass the line of trading houses without permission of the President of Texas and these trading houses were later established at the junction of the Clear Fork and West Fork of the Trinity River in present-day Fort Worth. At this river junction, the U. S, War Department established Fort Worth in 1849 as the northernmost of a system of 10 forts for protecting the American Frontier following the end of the Mexican–American War. The City of Fort Worth continues to be known as where the West begins, originally 10 forts had been proposed by Major General William Jenkins Worth, who commanded the Department of Texas in 1849. In January 1849, Worth proposed a line of 10 forts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork, One month later, Worth died from cholera in South Texas. General William S. Harney assumed command of the Department of Texas, Arnold to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork. On June 6,1849, Arnold, advised by Middleton Tate Johnson, established a camp on the bank of the Trinity River, in August 1849, Arnold moved the camp to the north-facing bluff, which overlooked the mouth of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The United States War Department officially named the post Fort Worth on November 14,1849, E. S. Terrell from Tennessee claimed to be the first resident of Fort Worth. The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff, the fort was abandoned September 17,1853. As a stop on the legendary Chisholm Trail, Fort Worth was stimulated by the business of the cattle drives, millions of head of cattle were driven north to market along this trail. Fort Worth became the center of the drives, and later. It was given the nickname of Cowtown, during Civil War, Fort Worth suffered from shortages of money, food, and supplies

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Kyle Field
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Kyle Field is the football stadium located on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. It has been the home to the Texas A&M Aggie football team in rudimentary form since 1904 and it is known as the Home of the 12th Man. Within the state of Texas, Kyle Field has the largest regular seating capacity, Kyle Fields largest game attendance was 110,631 people when Texas A&M lost to the Ole Miss Rebels with the score of 20–35 on October 11,2014. This was the largest football game attendance in the state of Texas, in the fall of 1904, Edwin Jackson Kyle, an 1899 graduate of Texas A&M and professor of horticulture, was named president of the General Athletics Association. Kyle wanted to secure and develop a field to promote the schools athletics. Texas A&M was unwilling to provide funds, so Kyle fenced off a section of the southwest corner of campus that had been assigned to him for agricultural use. Using $650 of his own money, he purchased a grandstand from the Bryan fairgrounds. On November 10,1904, the Texas A&M Board of Directors set this area as a permanent athletic field, after the stands were built, students supported naming the field after its founder and builder. In 1921, the November game between the Texas A&M Aggies and their archrival the University of Texas at Kyle Field became the first college game to offer a live. The Aggies enjoyed a season in 1919, accumulating a combined score of 275–0. Aggie supporters began to clamor for a stadium, but only $2,400 were raised by 1920, in 1927, the school chose to build a new stadium, at a cost of $345,001.67. The new stadium opened later that year, in 1929, grandstands were added on the north and west ends, turning the facility into a 33, 000-seat horseshoe. Capacity was raised to 41,500 in 1953 when a second deck. More of second deck and other improvements were added in 1967 to raise the capacity to 48,000 at a cost of $1,840,000, in 1974, two large flagpoles were added at the south end of the stadium in memory of Lt. William B. Blocker, Texas A&M class of 1945, expansion continued in 1980, when a third deck was added to Kyle Field, bringing the capacity to 70,000. Construction took place during the season, and students were allowed into the area as each row of seating was added. In 1981, 16-foot -high letters spelling out KYLE FIELD were installed, the Bernard C. Richardson Zone was added in 1999 at a cost of $32.9 million raising the capacity to 82,600. For high-demand games, temporary bleachers are installed in the end zone

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College Station, Texas
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College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East-Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley, in the center of the region known as Texas Triangle. It is 90 miles northwest of Houston and 87 miles northeast of Austin, as of the 2010 census, College Station had a population of 93,857, which had increased to an estimated population of 100,050 as of July 2013. College Station and Bryan together make up the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area, College Station is home to the main campus of Texas A&M University, the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The city owes both its name and existence to the location along a railroad. Due largely to the presence of Texas A&M University, College Station was named by Money magazine in 2006 as the most educated city in Texas, the origins of College Station date from 1860, when the Houston and Texas Central Railway began to build through the region. Eleven years later, the site was chosen as the location for the proposed Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in 1876, as the nation celebrated its centennial, the school opened its doors as the first public institution of higher education in the state of Texas. The population of College Station grew slowly, reaching 350 in 1884 and 391 at the turn of the century, however, during this time, transportation improvements took place in the town. In 1900, the I&GN Railroad was extended to College Station, the interurban was replaced by a city bus system in the 1920s. In 1930, the community to the north of College Station, College Station did not incorporate until 1938 with John H. Binney as the first mayor. Within a year, the city established a commission, and by 1940. The city grew under the leadership of Ernest Langford, called by some the Father of College Station, early in his first term, the city adopted a council-manager system of city government. Population growth accelerated following World War II as the nonstudent population reached 7,898 in 1950,11,396 in 1960,17,676 in 1970,30,449 in 1980,52,456 in 1990, and 67,890 in 2000. The population for the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area range from an estimated 250,846 to 271,773 by 2030. College Station is located south of the center of Brazos County at 30°36′5″N 96°18′52″W and it is bordered by the city of Bryan to the northwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 49.6 sq mi, of which 49.4 sq mi is land and 0.19 sq mi. The local climate is subtropical and temperate and winters are mild with periods of low temperatures usually lasting less than two months, snow and ice are extremely rare. Summers are warm and hot with occasional showers being the only variation in weather. About 27. 1% of all households were made up of individuals, the average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.98

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Waco, Texas
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Waco is a city which is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin, the city had a 2010 population of 124,805, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the state. The US Census 2015 population estimate is 132,356, the Waco Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of McLennan and Falls Counties, which had a 2010 population of 234,906. Falls County was added to the Waco MSA in 2013, the US Census 2016 population estimate for the Waco MSA is 265,207. Indigenous peoples occupied areas along the river for thousands of years, in historic times, the area of present-day Waco was occupied by the Wichita Native American tribe known as the Waco. In 1824, Thomas M. Duke explored the area and reported to Stephen F. Austin, describing the Waco village and they have a spring almost as cold as ice itself. All we want is some Brandy and Sugar to have Ice Toddy and they have about 400 acres planted in corn, beans, pumpkins, and melons and that tended in good order. I think they cannot raise more than One Hundred Warriors, after Austin halted the first attempt to destroy their village in 1825, he made a treaty with them. The Waco eventually moved out of the region, settling north near present-day Fort Worth, in 1872, they joined other Wichita tribes on a reservation in Oklahoma. In 1902, the Waco received allotments of land and became official US citizens, neil McLennan settled in an area near the South Bosque River in 1838. Jacob De Cordova bought McLennans property and hired a former Texas Ranger, in 1849, Erath designed the first block of the city. Property owners wanted to name the city Lamartine, but Erath convinced them to name the area Waco Village, in March 1849, Shapley Ross built the first house in Waco, a double-log cabin, on a bluff overlooking the springs. His daughter Kate was the first white child to be born in Waco, in 1866, Wacos leading citizens embarked on an ambitious project to build the first bridge to span the wide Brazos River. They formed the Waco Bridge Company to build the 475-foot brick Waco Suspension Bridge, the economic effects of the Waco bridge were immediate and large. The cowboys and cattle-herds following the Chisholm Trail north, crossed the Brazos River at Waco, some chose to pay the Suspension Bridge toll, while others floated their herds down the river. The population of Waco grew rapidly, as immigrants now had a crossing for their horse-drawn carriages. Since 1971, the bridge has been only to pedestrian traffic and is in the National Register of Historic Places. In the late 19th century, a district called the Reservation grew up in Waco

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Clark Field (1887)
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Clark Field, originally known as Varsity Athletic Field, was a stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Clark Field hosted the Texas Longhorns football and track teams until they moved to the newly constructed Memorial Stadium in 1924. It also hosted the Texas baseball team until it moved to the second Clark Field in 1928 and the Texas Longhorns mens basketball team until it moved next door to the new Mens Gym in 1917. The stadium opened in 1887 on part of the land at the southeast corner of 24th Street and Speedway At its peak of activity, in 1904 it was named after former University of Texas regent, James Benjamin Clark. Memorial Stadium, completed the year, was built a short distance to the southeast of Clark Field

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Austin, Texas
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Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. It is the 11th-most populous city in the U. S. and it is the fastest growing large city in the United States and the second most populous capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. As of the U. S. Census Bureaus July 1,2015 estimate and it is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 2,056,405 as of July 1,2016. In the 1830s, pioneers began to settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River, in 1839, the site was officially chosen to replace Houston as the new capital of the Republic of Texas and was incorporated under the name Waterloo. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas and the republics first secretary of state. The city subsequently grew throughout the 19th century and became a center for government and education with the construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas at Austin. After a lull in growth from the Great Depression, Austin resumed its development into a city and, by the 1980s, it emerged as a center for technology. A number of Fortune 500 companies have headquarters or regional offices in Austin, including Amazon. com, cisco, eBay, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Texas Instruments, 3M, and Whole Foods Market. Dells worldwide headquarters is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin, residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers. The city also adopted Silicon Hills as a nickname in the 1990s due to an influx of technology. In the late 1800s, Austin was known as the City of the Violet Crown because of the glow of light across the hills just after sunset. Even today, many Austin businesses use the term Violet Crown in their name, Austin is known as a clean-air city for its stringent no-smoking ordinances that apply to all public places and buildings, including restaurants and bars. The FBI ranked Austin as the second-safest major city in the U. S. for the year 2012, U. S. News & World Report named Austin the best place to live in the U. S. in 2017. Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of habitation since at least 9200 BC. When settlers arrived from Europe, the Tonkawa tribe inhabited the area, the Comanches and Lipan Apaches were also known to travel through the area. Spanish colonists, including the Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre expedition, traveled through the area for centuries, in 1730, three missions from East Texas were combined and reestablished as one mission on the south side of the Colorado River, in what is now Zilker Park, in Austin. The mission was in area for only about seven months

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Austin College
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Austin College is a private liberal arts college affiliated by covenant relationship with the Presbyterian Church and located in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. The undergraduate student body of Austin College is about 1,300, students are required to live on campus for the first three years of their education in order to foster a close-knit and community oriented campus lifestyle. Austin College actively promotes study abroad programs, 70% of graduates have at least one international study experience during college, the college cultivates close interaction between students and professors via a 12,1 student to faculty ratio and an average class size of fewer than 25 students. The college has no teaching assistants, so regular faculty teach all levels of coursework, the college was founded on October 13,1849, in Huntsville, Texas, by the Hampden–Sydney and Princeton-educated missionary Dr. Daniel Baker. Signed by Texas Governor George Wood, the charter of Austin College was modeled after those of Harvard, Yale, Baker named the school for the Texas historical figure Stephen F. Austin after the original land on which it was built was donated by the Austin family. Austin Colleges founding president was Irish-born Presbyterian minister Samuel McKinney, who served as the president a second time from 1862 to 1871. Under the tenure of the president of Austin College, Reverend Samuel Magoffin Luckett, Austin College suffered several yellow fever epidemics. Texas Synod of the Presbyterian Church decided the college would be relocated to Sherman in 1876, construction of the new campus in north Texas came in the form of Old Main, a two-story, red brick structure, which occurred between 1876 and 1878. Austin College saw little improvement to its building or grounds during the late 1870s, as such, a shrewd and well connected businessman, President MacGregor relieved a great deal of the colleges debt and returned operations to normalcy. After MacGregors death in 1887, the college welcomed President Luckett back to the campus, on January 21 of 1913, Old Main was set ablaze and burnt to the ground in a matter of hours. A professor of Austin College, Davis Foute Eagleton described the incident, Austin College on fire, - The dear old building in which I have laboured for twenty-four years, gone. What traditions, memories, griefs, joys, were associated with it, the carpenters were approaching the completion of their work. The new English room was completed, the room was soon to be ready. I lost all books, or, in my class room, the laboratories were almost a total loss. Fortunately, the library, records, and office furniture were all in the new Y. M. C. A, the Faculty also met shortly after and unanimously decided to continue college work the next day as usual, meeting their classes in places designated. Probably not another institution in the State could have done this, but the old College building is gone forever. Following the fire, the citizens of Sherman raised $50,000 to help the college rebuild, now one of the oldest buildings on the Austin College campus, Sherman Hall housed administrative offices, an auditorium-chapel, and a library. Now the home of the division, Sherman Hall boasted such guests as Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone Sr. Madame Schumann-Heink, William Howard Taft

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Sherman, Texas
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Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The citys population in 2010 was 38,315 and it is one of the two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area, and it is part of the Texoma region. Sherman was named after General Sidney Sherman, a hero of the Texas Revolution, the community was designated as the county seat by the act of the Texas legislature which created Grayson County on March 17,1846. In 1847, a post office began operation, Sherman was originally located at the center of the county, but in 1848 it was moved about 3 miles east to its current location. By 1850, Sherman had become a town under Texas law. It had also become a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route through Texas, by 1852, Sherman had a population of 300. It consisted of a square with a log court house, and several businesses, a district clerks office. During the 1850s and 1860s, Sherman continued to develop and to participate in regional politics, the first flour mill was built in 1861. In 1862 the publisher of Shermans anti-secessionist Whig newspaper, the Patriot, was murdered, during and after the Civil War, north Texas outlaw bands led by Jesse James and William Quantrill were seen in Sherman. Years later, James spent at least part of his honeymoon in Sherman, education developed in north Texas during this time. The Sherman Male and Female High School started accepting students during 1866 and it was one of three private schools in Sherman at the time. This school operated under several names until 1935 and it gradually lost Methodist support, after the opening of Southern Methodist University in 1915 in Dallas. In 1876, Austin College, the oldest continuously operating college in Texas, Sherman Female Institute, later known as Mary Nash College, opened in 1877 under sponsorship of the Baptist Church. It continued operation until 1901 when the campus was sold to Kidd-Key College, carr–Burdette College, a womens college affiliated with the Disciples of Christ, operated there from 1894 to 1929. Jews have had a history in Sherman, too, settling in the area. While there was general depression and lawlessness during Reconstruction, Sherman remained commercially active, during the 1870s Shermans population reached 6,000. In 1875, two fires destroyed many buildings east of the square and they were rebuilt with superior materials. This included a new Grayson County Courthouse built in 1876, in 1879, the Old Settlers Association of North Texas formed and met near Sherman

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Southwestern Pirates football
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The Southwestern Pirates football team represented Southwestern University in National Collegiate Athletic Association intercollegiate football competition from 1908 to 1950. After a brief period of prominence during the Second World War, on October 28,2011, The Southwestern University board of trustees voted to reinstate the program. The Pirates football team resumed play in the Fall of 2013 as part of the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, in 2016, the final year that the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sponsored football, the Pirates posted a perfect 6–0 record in becoming undefeated conference champions. As a part of the championship the Pirates swept the conferences major post-season awards, including, Justin Broussard, Matt Gillen, Nik Kelly, Luke Fierst and Joe Austin. Records show that football was played at Southwestern University as early as 1895 and they were charter members of the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association along with Austin College and Trinity in 1908, and of the Southwest Conference in 1914. They then left the Southwest Conference prior to the 1918, but continued to compete within the TIAA until 1925, at that point Southwestern helped form the Texas Conference along with Trinity, Simmons, Austin College, Howard Payne, and Daniel Baker. Southwestern would remain in the Texas Conference until the program was disbanded on April 27,1951, prior to the 1940s, Southwestern was considered a small time football program, and only received national media attention about once yearly, whenever it faced a major college team. The Navy program gave it a pool of experienced and skilled players, in 1943, Southwesterns team boasted seven former starters from Texas and varsity players formerly from Baylor. Despite the influx of stars, Southwestern still had to contend with players leaving midseason to report for military training, during the 1943 season, Southwestern climbed as high as the eleventh-ranked team in the nation in the Associated Press Poll. Southwestern lost only one game during the season, and won the Sun Bowl against New Mexico, after the 1944 season, the Sun Bowl invited Southwestern to return to face the National University of Mexico. Southwestern routed the Pumas, 35–0, to set a record for the game before 13,000 spectators. After the conclusion of the Second World War, and the concurrent disbandment of the training programs on campus. Southwestern University disbanded its team in April 1951 due to budget constraints. On October 28,2011, The Southwestern University board of trustees voted to reinstate the football program. The reinstatement was made possible by $6 million in gifts, $5 million was pledged by Joe Seeber, a 1963 Southwestern graduate. However, Seeber later withdrew his pledge, the other $1 million was donated by Red McCombs, who attended Southwestern and played football. “As the oldest university in Texas, we realize the importance many people place on football, “There are many bright young men who want to play football in college who find NCAA Division III appealing. It is important for us to be back in the game, on February 27,2012 Joe Austin was hired as the new head football coach at Southwestern

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Georgetown, Texas
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Georgetown is a city in and the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States, with a population of 47400 at the 2010 census and a population of 63,716 at the 2016 Census Estimate. It is 30 miles from Austin, Southwestern University, the oldest university in Texas, was founded in 1840 and is located in Georgetown about one-half mile from the historic square. Sun City Texas is a large retirement-oriented and age-restricted development that constitutes more than one-third of Georgetowns population, Georgetown has a notable range of Victorian commercial and residential architecture. Georgetown is also known as the Red Poppy Capital of Texas for the red poppy wildflowers planted throughout the city, Georgetowns Red Poppy Festival, which attracts up to 30,000 visitors annually, is held in April each year on the historic square. Georgetown has been the site of habitation since at least 9,000 B. C. The earliest known inhabitants of the county, during the late Pleistocene, can be linked to the Clovis culture and that first appeared around 9200 B. C. and possibly as early as 11,500 B. C. at the end of the last glacial period. One of the most important discoveries in recent times is that of the ancient skeletal remains dubbed The Leanderthal Lady because of its age and proximity to nearby community Leander, Texas. The site is immediately southwest of Georgetown and was discovered by accident by Texas Department of Transportation workers while core samples for a new highway were being drilled. The site has been studied for many years, and samples carbon date the findings to the Pleistocene period. During the eighteenth century made the transition to a horse culture. There also appear to have small numbers of Kiowa, Yojuane, Tawakoni. Even after most Native Americans were crowded out by white settlement, Georgetown was named for George Washington Glasscock who donated the land for the new town. Early American and Swedish pioneers were attracted to the abundance of timber and good. In addition, the land was inexpensive and extremely fertile, Georgetown, Texas, is the county seat of Williamson County, which was formed on March 13,1848 after the early settlers petitioned the State Legislature to create it out of Milam County. The county was originally to have been named San Gabriel County, but was named after Robert McAlpin Williamson. Georgetown was a community for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Shawnee Trail, a trail that led from Texas to the railcenters in Kansas and Missouri. The establishment of Southwestern University in 1873 and construction of a railroad in 1878 contributed to the towns growth, a stable economy developed, based largely on agricultural activity

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Central Time Zone
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The North American Central Time Zone is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Central Standard Time is six hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, during summer most of the zone uses daylight saving time, and changes to Central Daylight Time which is five hours behind UTC. The province of Manitoba is the province or territory in Canada that observes Central Time in all areas. Also, most of the province of Saskatchewan is on Central Standard Time year-round, major exceptions include Lloydminster, a city situated on the boundary between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The city charter stipulates that it shall observe Mountain Time and DST, putting the community on the time as all of Alberta, including the major cities of Calgary. As a result, during the summer, clocks in the province match those in Alberta. The Central Time Zone is the second most populous in the US after the Eastern Time Zone, lanett and Valley observe Eastern Time historically because they were textile mill towns and the original home office of their mills was in West Point, Georgia. Some eastern counties observe Central Time because they are close to the border of the Middle Tennessee counties surrounding the Nashville metropolitan area. Louisiana Michigan, All of Michigan observes Eastern Time except the four Upper Peninsula counties that border Wisconsin, other westernmost counties from this area such as Ontonagon observe Eastern Time. South Dakota, Eastern half as divided by the Missouri river adjacent to the state capital, note, the metropolitan area of Pierre is Central, including Fort Pierre. Wisconsin Most of Mexico—roughly the eastern three-fourths—lies in the Central Time Zone, except for six northwestern states, the federal entities of Mexico that observe Central Time, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua all use Central Standard Time year-round. The Galápagos Islands in Ecuador uses Central Standard Time all year-round, Daylight saving time is in effect in much of the Central time zone between mid-March and early November. The modified time is called Central Daylight Time and is UTC−5, in Canada, Saskatchewan does not observe a time change. One reason that Saskatchewan does not take part in a change is that, geographically. The province elected to move onto permanent daylight saving by being part of the Central Time Zone, Mexico decided not to go along with this change and observes their horario de verano from the first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. In December 2009, the Mexican Congress allowed ten border cities, eight of which are in states that observe Central Time, to adopt the U. S. daylight time schedule effective in 2010

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Amon G. Carter Stadium
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Amon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It is named after Amon G. Carter, a prominent Fort Worth businessman, newspaper publisher and it has several popular nicknames, the most popular being The Carter and Hells Half Acre. Between 2010 and 2012 the stadium underwent a $164 million reconstruction project, in 1923, TCU received a generous donation from Mary Couts Burnett, the widow of a wealthy and well known Texas rancher. The Burnett donation constituted the egg for TCUs endowment, the removal of Clark Field necessitated the construction of a new field for athletic competition, especially in the sport of football. TCU played its first season of football in 1896, and since then had built a reputation of excellence garnering national attention, Amon Carter stadium was constructed from 1929 to 1930 with an original seating capacity of 22,000. The stadium hosted its first football game on October 11,1930, in the 1930s under head coach Dutch Meyer, the Horned Frogs won national championships in 1935 and 1938. The first expansion of the stadium took place in 1948, with raising the capacity by 8,500 to a total of 30,500. In 1951 and 1953,2,500 and 4,000 more seats were added which raised capacity to 37,000 seats, an upper deck, topped by a two-story press box and highlighted with a large stylized TCU, was added in 1956. This brought the capacity to 46,083. In 1985 and 1991, improvements were made to the seating and this involved replacing the old seats in the lower bowl with aluminum bleachers. The upper-deck seats were replaced in the same way. This reduced the capacity to 44,008 spectators. In 1992, the turf, which had been in place since 1973, was replaced with natural grass. In 2002, the David E. Bloxom, Sr. Foundation helped install a new scoreboard and videoboard, new club seats and luxury suites were added prior to the 2008 season, increasing capacity to 44,358. Work on the reconstruction, which is funded completely by donor support and it was fully completed in 2012 and cost a total of $164 million. The highest ever recorded attendance at Amon G. Carter was 50,307, the 2012 home season was the first time an entire season was sold out at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Since 2003, the playing surface has been named W. A

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TCU Horned Frogs
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The TCU Horned Frogs are the athletic teams that represent Texas Christian University, consisting of 18 varsity teams. The horned frog nickname and mascot refer to the Texas horned lizard, the teams participate in the NCAA Division I and in the Football Bowl Subdivision for football competing in the Big 12 Conference. On October 10,2011, TCU announced that it had accepted an invitation to join the Big 12 Conference, the Horned Frogs, without a conference to call home after 72 years, joined the Western Athletic Conference, along with SMU and Rice. TCU called the WAC home from 1996 through 2000, in 2001, TCU joined Conference USA and remained there through 2004. TCU joined the Mountain West Conference in 2005, † = Beach volleyball is a fully sanctioned NCAA sport which had its first national championship in the spring of 2016. The return of prominence of TCU football began under the watch of Dennis Franchione when TCU defeated the Trojans of USC in the 1998 Sun Bowl. From 1939, the year after TCUs last national championship, to 1997, in those 67 years, TCU won 6 Southwest Conference titles and attended 11 bowl games winning only one of those games. Since 1998, TCU has amassed a record of 79–30, in four of the last five years, the Horned Frogs have won at least 10 games in a season, and won 11 games in three of the last four. During this period TCU has won games against Louisville, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Utah, from 1998 to 2006, TCU has attended 8 bowl games, winning five of them. The record of TCU in bowl games as of 2006 is 9–13–1, TCU also claims two national championships from 1935 and 1938. TCU has 41 1st team All-Americans, listed at TCU Horned Frogs football, TCU have achieved success under numerous coaches including Matty Bell, L. D. Dutch Meyer, Abe Martin, Dennis Franchione, and current coach Gary Patterson, Gary Patterson received nine National Coach of the Year honors in 2009. Coaches Matthews, Baugh, OBrien, Aldrich, Lester, Swink, Lilly, Baugh and Lilly are also members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The TCU Football team plays its games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, the stadium opened in 1930 and has a capacity of 44,008. On December 5,2010 the west wing of the Amon G. Carter Stadium was imploded in order accommodate 24 suites, including six Founders suites on the lower level, total cost of the renovation of Amon G. Carter Stadium is $105 million. TCU has fielded a team since 1896, before the school found its home in Fort Worth. The Horned Frog baseball team began playing baseball in the Southwest Conference when it became a member of the conference in 1923 and that year they finished the year with a 13–11 overall record and a 2–10 conference record. In 1933 Dutch Meyer, also the coach of the football team, during the rest of their time in the SWC, the Frogs would win 6 more regular-season SWC baseball titles

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TCU Horned Frogs football statistical leaders
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Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. The Horned Frogs represent Texas Christian University in the NCAAs Big 12 Conference and these lists are dominated by more recent players for several reasons, Since the 1930s, seasons have increased from 10 games to 11 and then 12 games in length. The NCAA didnt allow freshmen to play varsity football until 1972, bowl games only began counting toward single-season and career statistics in 2002. The Horned Frogs have played in 12 bowl games since then, all of TCUs 10 highest seasons ranked by total offensive yards have come during the 21st century. The Horned Frogs obliterated its school record in 2014, accumulating 6,929 yards of offense after switching to an air raid offense. The Horned Frogs broke this record in 2015 by putting up 7,317 yards and these lists are updated through the end of the 2015 season. Total offense is the sum of passing and rushing statistics and it does not include receiving or returns